The working from home thread

[Wolveryeti]

my working from home is work intense for twenty minutes, then do something else like eat, watch 4 youtube videos, have a vape in the garden, then another 20 minutes of intense work, etc etc.

I can't break out of that sort of pattern. it's just the way my brain is made. i can imagine MANY of my colleagues though do the whole log on at nine, keep plugging all the way through until 5.

I've accepted that this is just how I work and the work is done and done well so not bothered.

do others have this sort of cycle when wfh? work, then foot of the pedal, the work, foot of the pedal, etc?

Sounds a lot like the Pomodoro technique:

Pomodoro Technique - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I am also like this. Do some work then need a bit of faffing as a treat.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

i'm sure it's been mentioned in the thread already, but since the question's been asked on another thread, probably no harm in another mention that you can claim a little bit off your income tax for the costs of working from home

Claim tax relief for your job expenses

Claiming tax relief on expenses you have to pay for your work, like uniforms, tools, travel and working from home costs.

www.gov.uk

 

[MBV]

Thanks Puddy_Tat I'd been meaning to do this. Good Sunday task.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Been meaning to claim for that for ages - have bookmarked it so I can sort it out next week.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Been meaning to claim for that for ages - have bookmarked it so I can sort it out next week.

get on with it

took about 5 minutes if that

 

[nagapie]

Someone I know told me that they got £6 back so I can't be arsed.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Someone I know told me that they got £6 back so I can't be arsed.

it's not an enormous amount - comes to £ 1.20 a week, but that's better than a kick up the tail...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

it's not an enormous amount - comes to £ 1.20 a week, but that's better than a kick up the tail...

About 50 quid a year is better than nowt so definitely worth claiming.

 

[nagapie]

it's not an enormous amount - comes to £ 1.20 a week, but that's better than a kick up the tail...

Mine doesn't come to enough to make me fill out a form.

 

[Elpenor]

£50 for 5 mins work, none of us earn £600 / hour so worth doing

 

[stavros]

I got very pissed off with our OneDrive system today. Ours is an office where some quite agricultural language is tolerated; today it was liberating to be at home and turn the volume of my rage up to 11.

 

[RubyToogood]

What's really irritating is that everyone else in my org can claim the tax relief but I can't, because I was working from home before anyway.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Ours is an office where some quite agricultural language is tolerated

Like silage, acreage and yield then?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

What's really irritating is that everyone else in my org can claim the tax relief but I can't, because I was working from home before anyway.

That's a good point - I worked at home some days a week beforehand but not full-time. Not sure if that would affect my ability to claim.

 

[RubyToogood]

That's a good point - I worked at home some days a week beforehand but not full-time. Not sure if that would affect my ability to claim.

I think it depends on whether you are working from home by choice. I wasn't as I wasn't well enough to go into the office but I think I still discovered I couldn't claim.

 

[stavros]

Like silage, acreage and yield then?

This is East Anglia, so we feed beef burgers to swans.

 

[Artaxerxes]

That's a good point - I worked at home some days a week beforehand but not full-time. Not sure if that would affect my ability to claim.

Lie

 

[oli_1_uk]

I've really enjoyed working from home, I find I have a list of things to do each day which keeps me focused but have breaks throughout the day. After speaking with many other colleagues they all would prefer to work from home with only a small minority of people wanting to go back into work, I think being given the choice would be the best option for people but I can see that our workplace getting us back into the office sadly, disregarding a lot of the benefits to WFH.

I think the truth for a lot of staff is that they don't miss the office politics, the clicks and the ar*ehole colleagues, plus most people prefer their homes over going to work, unless you live in a bad or stressful environment.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Lie

I couldn't do that - it would make me feel really guilty.

 

[stavros]

Another brief cameo from the cat in a meeting with senior managers today. I knew she was preparing for it, rubbing round my legs and then getting in the jump position, but I didn't have the heart to deny her access. I put her back on the floor once her tail had flashed across assorted colleagues' screens.

 

[May Kasahara]

I picked up my giant cat and showed him to a bunch of colleagues on a call today. He gave me a shitty look and immediately flounced back to his comfortable sleeping spot.

 

[xenon]

I don't mind too much working from home, now it's been a year and is a perminant situation. Full time would do my head in though. Well a couple of things niggle. I don't have a proper desk cos it's full of my own stuff, which is OK but it means I'm spending far too long in the same chair all week.

Also with basically anything worth going to outside being still shut, if I think about it for too long, the cabin fever creeps in.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

colleague's cat chose the start of our weekly team meeting (on teams) yesterday to try and do a high speed climb on to the top shelf behind her.

box that was on the shelf and cat both came down fairly quick.

i must try and borrow next door's cat for next week's meeting...

 

[cybershot]

I’m glad I’m back in the office. The commute sucks though. Someone invent transporters ffs.

 

[mx wcfc]

I don't mind too much working from home, now it's been a year and is a perminant situation. Full time would do my head in though. Well a couple of things niggle. I don't have a proper desk cos it's full of my own stuff, which is OK but it means I'm spending far too long in the same chair all week.

Also with basically anything worth going to outside being still shut, if I think about it for too long, the cabin fever creeps in.

I'm getting to the point where the cabin fever thing has passed and actually I'd be happy wfh permanently, if I could go out locally. On the other hand, I think I'm looking forward to a future where I go in to the office, say, once a week. It would be nice to see colleagues. They're not all wankers.

Plus there's a couple of pubs and the cheese and beer shop, and the second hand record shop, and the Oxfam books and music shops near work that I'll be deliriously happy to visit again. Plus I'd get to see my mates in that town as well.

I (and colleagues) unilaterally decided to wfh before the WFH edict, and before the pubs were closed, but if "they" want me to do my miserable, expensive commute again, I want the Alehouse to be open. In fact, I can see me going to work in the morning, then booking the pm off to do a crawl. Alehouse, pop into Sweeney's for a pie and a pint, Castle Tap, Nags, then a swift one at the Greyfriar before getting the train home. Actually, that sounds like a plan.......

 

[stavros]

colleague's cat chose the start of our weekly team meeting (on teams) yesterday to try and do a high speed climb on to the top shelf behind her.

box that was on the shelf and cat both came down fairly quick.

You might not have seen it, but I bet the cat gave the "I meant that" look.

 

[marty21]

I picked up my giant cat and showed him to a bunch of colleagues on a call today. He gave me a shitty look and immediately flounced back to his comfortable sleeping spot.

My cat sometimes makes an appearance, but doesn't like being in the limelight for long.

 

[kabbes]

My cat is just as keen to show video participants his bottom as he is to show it to us.

 

[stavros]

Workmen trimming trees outside my front window meant I had play extremely loud music today in order to maintain concentration.

 

[Elpenor]

I have been working for the last 4 days in the office at my new place. I will wfh at some point, when my laptop arrives - the impression I get is that it may take a while. Out of a team of 8, so far the most we have had in the office other than me is 2, tomorrow it will just be me! Fortunately everyone has been friendly and understanding of my lack of knowledge of teams, which has helped me pick things up gradually